To let you know the axe and machete girl WAS defending herself against her now convicted attacker.

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A lot of posters here need to see the conclusion of this story about the clearly terrified child, that so many people were quick to be awful about. You all owe this extremely vulnerable child you participated in the defamation of, a massive fucking apology. I'm genuinely so angry about how so many grown women denigrated a hurt and scared child. Her fear was so evident in her voice and demeanor and so many mothers here were quick to throw her under a bus. Well you've all been proven wrong now, with the man she was trying to defend herself from found guilty of assault.

Honestly, just think about what you people did, defending a man who assaulted a child just because she was of a class you deem beneath you. I hope you're very, very ashamed and take stock before more girls like her suffer worse.

https://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/uk/bulgarian-man-guilty-of-assaulting-12-year-old-girl/a/156878498.html

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I wouldn’t have mine sat on a street corner regardless, with or without an axe.

The court was told that the girls were walking to a bus stop when they came across the defendant. Is walking to a bus stop not allowed either?

There are answers that aren’t punching 12 year olds, or giving them knives.

It is sort of your responsibility as a parent to find them.

I’m not going to spoon feed you how not to allow your children to carry weapons, or how to prevent them sitting in parks, or how to personally not attack children.

You can make it out of our upbringings without thinking it okay to carry weapons or hit children. @ArmySal and I are evidence of that, I’m sorry you didn’t manage the same.

Not with an axe (sorry, hatchet) it isn’t, no.

How can you tell the man's religion?

Asked if he said "hello sexy" to the girls or "I'll show you a good time", he replied "No, I swear on my god."

Who is he referring to as 'my god'?

As I said it shouldn’t be necessary, if where I currently live stays as it is. But if I have to defend my children I absolutely will. And won’t just sit on my haunches thinking the useless police would do anything (how naive you are!)

I wasn’t aware children were not allowed to sit in parks? Parks are literally built for children! What about the grown man lurking around little girls?

I don’t know, do you know?

His god isn’t really relevant to him being a predator. I don’t think he was there.

In your post I replied to you said 'with or without an axe'. Make up your mind.

To be honest, in this day and age - no, I wouldn’t send my kids out to get on a bus somewhere.

I’d take them.

I think the days of independently and aimlessly just going out with your mates and making your own way around are over, and have been for some time.

If there’s any chance my kids would come into contact with a peer with a knife, they wouldn’t be going. So in this circumstance, they wouldn’t be in that group of girls.

I don’t know, do you know?

No, I don't but your post claims he is not a Muslim. How do you know?

Some things, aren’t about Muslims.

I’m also at least fairly confident, that if he was - the press would have latched onto that by now, because you know - popular debate.

Some things, aren’t about Muslims

You raised the point.

I’m also at least fairly confident, that if he was - the press would have latched onto that by now

Unless he is a practising Muslim I don't see how they would know either way.

Technically threatening someone with a knife is a crime, so the police could have charged the girl beyond possession and they don’t seem to have. The fact that the man has been charged despite all the media blaming her shows he was the aggressor. And he was the aggressor before she brought out a weapon.

as a child, we need to ask ourselves about how she was brutalised like this rather than somehow equating her level of wrongdoing to that of an adult man.

all the people demonising the child on this and seeking to find ways she might be racist - I’d bet you’d be trying to excuse the child a lot more if the races were reversed and that you’re not equally keen on some of the measures targeting knife crime that disproportionately affect young black men…

Good that he was found guilty but I am also not supporting those who carry knives and axes.

You think people would think it was okay if a black child was carrying an axe and the issue is shes white with an axe? …really??

I also have an issue with black boys carrying knives.

Hope that helps.

Yeah I chuckled at that too.

To be honest, in this day and age - no, I wouldn’t send my kids out to get on a bus somewhere.

This incident happened in August last year. Why is the current Labour government proposing to fund free bus travel for children up to age 16 in August this year, with unlimited journeys, encouraging young tweens/teens to put themselves in danger?

Nope, I didn’t.

PP compared this case to the grooming gang scandal, despite their being absolutely no link, claiming that white girls don’t trust the police because of it, even when the person attacking them isn’t Pakistani.

I didn’t just throw some Muslims into the conversation, a completely false equivalence was made.

Some people at the moment will go to absolutely any lengths to make any conversation about what is rightfully wrong about the grooming gangs. Or, as PP also did, try to make a white girl in Scotland with a hatchet about black boys in London.

The U.K. is a state not a country.

I’m afraid you’d have to ask them, I’m not a government official, nor do I have any links to them.

Kids in Scotland do get free bus travel with their young Scot’s card. I don’t really think it’s the bus that is the issue.

The UK is a country.
Scotland is also a country.
I'm not sure what relevance this has to anything though?

About the same relevance as the initial comment, which was basically that it’s fine for people and girls to carry axes because there were grooming gangs in Rochdale.

Repulsive isn't it, all these grown adults, getting their lols out of this little girls situation, and then they wonder why she resorted to carrying a weapon...